On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:30:42AM -0500, Bryan Ragon wrote: > # fdisk -l /dev/hdb > /dev/hdb1 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux > (Is that a proper Id? Plus, looking at my media_vg backup, I don't believe > there should be a partition because the hint is /dev/hdb, not /dev/hdb1) > device = "/dev/hdb" # Hint only Chances are you didn't remove the partition table before using the entire unpartitioned device as a physical volume, or ran pvcreate on /dev/hdb when you intended to use hdb1. (Recent lvm2 versions of pvcreate handle this better.) Try removing the partition table. [eg delete the partition with fdisk/parted, or write 512 zero bytes to the start of /dev/hdb - back it up first - and run blockdev --rereadpt] Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
